Cash tourney results from 7/25

[Red Childress]

Does anyone have the results of Larry's tourney yesterday on Chautauqua?? I heard someone (fishing alone) hit a 47 and 48 so I would assume he took home the cash........

[NitroMusky]

Larry put up the results (id have copy/pasted but Im typing from the mobile phone).

you are correct: there was a 48 to win, fishing alone. there were also a few from 40 up to 43 that I know of (i pulled in a 42).

how did you, Charlie and Jim do casting-any tips? im heading there for a week on Saturday and can't bear to drag lures for a week straight not to mention it would bore the family to death LOL...

[Red Childress]

The Winner was Daryle Branieki with a 48 inch fish and was fishing alone. The tourney format was biggest fish takes all. There were 28 muskies caught & released by 38 fishermen......9 of the 28 muskies were from 40 to 48 inches, most of the rest were mid-30 inch fish. Daryle took home 760 dollars in cash with 38 teams fishing the event.

[Red Childress]

We had 4 fish up and 2 hooked within the first 30 minutes of fishing between 10:15 and 10:45. Like you, we could not bear trolling around the North end and clearing rods every 10 minutes.

Try finding some clean weed edges (that should not be hard) somewhere in the North end and start working anything that is "twitchable". Do not be afraid to work the same areas from different angles/baits before deciding to leave, especially if you raise a fish or two in that area.

It was obvious that the zebra mussels are really cleaning up the lake due to the presence of deeper stubble all the way out to 14-15 feet of water. It will be interesting watching that lake continue to transform as the zebra mussels become more prevalent. It was my first time out there this year and I was shocked at the water clarity.

[NitroMusky]

Thanks Red. Good to know that the grasses haven't pushed the fish out of the weeds in all areas. didn't want to find out the hard way during the tourney that they had been.

And after seeing the algae bloom around bemus, I now remember why I told my wife 'no rentals on the south end!!' you'd think the zebras didn't exist down there!

[Red Childress]

If you want to check on the zebra population, just drop an anchor for 5 minutes and pull her up........they will be hanging off the anchor by the thousands in the North end.